...Carrie Hyde Hyde reassesses the relationship between natural and civil rights by tracking the climatological metaphors that shape representations of the 1841 slave revolt aboard the Creole , in which 135 slaves obtained freedom by redirecting a US ship to the British territory of Nassau, Bahamas...

...Shawn Salvant Duke University Press 2007 Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives . By Jenny Sharpe. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xxvi, 187 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial...

...Michelle A. Stephens Duke University Press 2007 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic . By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and...

...Carrie Hyde Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions . By Landers Jane G. . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press : 2010 . x, 340 pp. $29.95 . The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel . By Lee Julia Sun-Joo . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2010 . viii, 192...

... in such a regionalist, Caribbean American imaginary, specifically Jamaican Creole healer and boarding-house operator Mary Seacole and the Eurasian writer Sui Sin Far. Although from distinct epochs and locations, Seacole and Sui Sin Far—as migrant laboring women of color in the Caribbean American...

... (1880)—a text that constantly signals its own inability to reproduce the speech and music of New Orleans's Afro-Creole community—in order to illustrate the growing sense among late-nineteenth-century U.S. writers that the written word was fundamentally inadequate as a sound archive. The second half...

... ideas in his only novella, “The Heroic Slave” (1853), in which Madison Washington, leader of the 1841 Creole mutiny, declares his independence in a forest glade that functions as a chapel of natural rights. This kind of radical republican pastoralism also shapes My Bondage, My Freedom (1855). The...

... representations of obeah, a creole religion practiced by enslaved persons in the British Caribbean, arguing that such narratives use religious experience to craft an alternative transnationalism. Works such as William Earle’s 1800 novel Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack and similar chapbooks, penny...

...Thomas F. Haddox Duke University Press 2002 Thomas F. The ‘‘Nous’’ of Southern Catholic Haddox Quadroons: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identity in Les Cenelles In 1845 a group of seventeen free Creoles of color in New Orleans published Les...

... stories of territorialization, did the work of imagining, rationalizing, and legitimizing expansion—to show how explorers, elite Creoles, filibusters, journalists, American Literature, Volume 88, Number 1, March 2016 DOI 10.1215/00029831-3453720 © 2016 by Duke University Press...

... Douglass and Melville,” 217–46. Hyde, Carrie. “The Climates of Liberty: Natural Rights in the Creole Case and ‘The Heroic Slave 475–504. Jagoda, Patrick, Tara McPherson, and Wendy H. K. Chun. “Preface: New Media and American Literature,” 615–28. Jagoda, Patrick. “Fabulously Procedural: Braid...

... States and the North- ern part of Latin America. Following Gabriel García Márquez, Cohn claims that the geographical area between the American South and northern Brazil constitutes one coherent cultural space of creolized existence in which Faulkner dominates as a creole author (44). With the...

..., preservationist Voodoo aesthetic moves from another kind of conservatism—born of creolization’s complex balancing acts and New World transformations. Her grounding in the creole history, culture, and landscapes of Florida fed her efforts to muddy the water of national, disciplinary, and psychic boundaries...

... own fugitive status, Douglass had evoked on numerous occasions in essay and oration the life of escaped slave Madison Washington and his role in the 1841 Creole slave ship revolt. From the “traces” of this event, Douglass styled his only work of prose fiction in 1853.2 The Heroic Slave depicts...

... allow the youths to simultaneously connect with others and yet still maintain their particular social identities. Father figures (and boundaries in general), in other words, aren’t merely sites of exclusion, but rather sites of transformation. Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study. By...